Plays & Poetry International

An inspiring anthology to keep you company for every day and night of the summer.

Euripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.

An accessible prose translation that is accompanied by a general introduction and individual prefaces to each play.

Dramatic Monologues from a dressmaker on laudanum and a stenographer in love with a young revolutionary give their alternative views of the Irish Troubles and the Civil War.

John F. Deane is the founder of Poetry Ireland, the National Poetry Society, and of its journal The Poetry Ireland Review. He is also founder and first editor of The Dedalus Press. Translated in many languages, he has won many prestigious Irish and international awards for his poetry and in 1996 was elected Secretary General of the European Academy of Poetry. His recent work includes his memoir Give Dust a Tongue published by Columba Press in 2015 and Achill: The Island publishes by Columba Booksin 2018.

The Writers : a sense of Ireland : new works by 44 Irish writers / selected and edited by Andrew Carpenter and Peter Fallon ; with photographs of the writers by Mike Bunn

Set in Dublin, this play follows the doings of Cat, in her late teens and temping as a nightclub hostess. She tries to jolt-start her life by blowing up her boyfriend's car and hopping into bed with a 50-year-old married man before settling for companionship with her best mate Sophie.

The classic verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia.

An cnuasach filíochta is déanaí ón bhfile a d’fhás sna Norries. Bailiúchán breá pearsanta ina bhfuil ceithre fórsa domhanda = Talamh, Aer, Tine, Uisce, mar theidil caibidil ar na dánta. A very personal collection containing four world forces = Land, Air, Fire, Water, as the chapter titles for the poems.

The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual actor's perspective; here Emma Fielding offers her view of Viola and "Twelfth Night".